If you bought your iphone from a regular shop you can get a refund or exchange. (need receipt and must be within 14 days of purchase)Not in my experience.if you bought it at Pantip plaza, maybe not. (Caveat Emptor)MBK, what a crazy place, why do you guys need a thousand cell phone outlets in one mall?Yes you can buy a mobile for 1,000 Baht (Samsung or Nokia) brand new and out of the box...Well, I will see if I can.I don't know why you spent 30,000 on a mobile in the first place. Seems like an awful lot of money for someone who wants to ordain. Not to worry, Bangkok has ruined me financially. Not to worry Thailand has nearly put me off of the idea of ordaining. I may do so in Canada or elsewhere.

If you bought your iphone from a regular shop you can get a refund or exchange. (need receipt and must be within 14 days of purchase)Not in my experience.if you bought it at Pantip plaza, maybe not. (Caveat Emptor)MBK, what a crazy place, why do you guys need a thousand cell phone outlets in one mall?Yes you can buy a mobile for 1,000 Baht (Samsung or Nokia) brand new and out of the box...Well, I will see if I can.I don't know why you spent 30,000 on a mobile in the first place. Seems like an awful lot of money for someone who wants to ordain. Not to worry, Bangkok has ruined me financially. Not to worry Thailand has nearly put me off of the idea of ordaining. I may do so in Canada or elsewhere.

If you bought your iphone from a regular shop you can get a refund or exchange. (need receipt and must be within 14 days of purchase)Not in my experience.if you bought it at Pantip plaza, maybe not. (Caveat Emptor)MBK, what a crazy place, why do you guys need a thousand cell phone outlets in one mall?Yes you can buy a mobile for 1,000 Baht (Samsung or Nokia) brand new and out of the box...Well, I will see if I can.I don't know why you spent 30,000 on a mobile in the first place. Seems like an awful lot of money for someone who wants to ordain. Not to worry, Bangkok has ruined me financially. Not to worry Thailand has nearly put me off of the idea of ordaining. I may do so in Canada or elsewhere.

Nathan, neither Bangkok nor Thailand has ruined you financially....but perhaps your desires have.That said, I officially renounce my participation in the internet forums for all time. So long, and all the best.metta & upekkhanathan

Your comments about Thailand 'nearly putting you off the idea of ordaining' are unnecessary.

The problem is you came here green. If you had taken the time to find out first, you would have gone to a decent, regular, bona fide shop.

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7

Thanks Dmytro for sharing, it looked like quite an interesting series of events you attended.Metta

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725